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1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

Almost like that’s the exact point. 

But he’s cutting expenses … don’t you even balance the budget bro? 

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Just now, InkaUtexas said:

What ever, but then we will have the F-Trump. Made by Tesla. Guadaloopy is the test pilot.

Oh leave him alone. He’s harmless. I’m a Tesla owner and it’s a great car. I’m also an Elon hater and hope he dies with the dotard in a cyber truck joy ride. 

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Interestingly I just got an employee survey with a ton of DEI questions… very right leaning management but maybe because it’s private?  I have a feeling there’s a lot of re-branding of DEI right now…

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40 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

So, um, if the national parks start seeing some really bad things happen, I may not be around for a while. That is my reddest of lines. Monkey Wrench Gang is a great book. 

Been there, done that.  During a government shutdown during his first term, Trump forced Joshua Tree National Park to remain open with reduced staff.  This resulted in lots of damage to the fragile trees in the park.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/28/joshua-tree-national-park-damage-government-shutdown

According to a former park superintendent, "What’s happened to our park in the last 34 days is irreparable for the next 200 to 300 years".

😡

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3 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

Interestingly I just got an employee survey with a ton of DEI questions… very right leaning management but maybe because it’s private?  I have a feeling there’s a lot of re-branding of DEI right now…

Taking up a good deal of my time.

Find: Diversity  Replace:       

Find: Equity  Replace: 

 

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2 minutes ago, 27-25 said:

Been there, done that.  During a government shutdown during his first term, Trump forced Joshua Tree National Park to remain open with reduced staff.  This resulted in lots of damage to the fragile trees in the park.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/28/joshua-tree-national-park-damage-government-shutdown

According to a former park superintendent, "What’s happened to our park in the last 34 days is irreparable for the next 200 to 300 years".

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Oh I remember. Fucking infuriating. Cryptobiotic soils destroyed by dirt bike and atv dumbasses. 

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1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

So, um, if the national parks start seeing some really bad things happen, I may not be around for a while. That is my reddest of lines. Monkey Wrench Gang is a great book. 

yeah...it's all a horrible nightmare but i said the same earlier today, my personal red line...my god...

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https://apnews.com/article/ap-white-house-gulf-name-dispute-3f43c519a4b4f4661dd0831421943ef7

 

DotARd not letting AP reporters into press briefings because they are still calling it the Gulf of Mexico. 

Seriously, all reporters should just boycott all doTArd press briefings. He would starve without the attention. Its not like they say anything that's not a lie anyway. 

 

 

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8 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Well, this is something
 

Brazen lawlessness. But hey like our republican friends loves to tell us, if there's no charges, there's no crime! Simple as. 

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1 hour ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Taking up a good deal of my time.

Find: Diversity  Replace:       

Find: Equity  Replace: 

 

Why waste the time?  No one reads that shit anyway. 

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https://apnews.com/article/ap-white-house-gulf-name-dispute-3f43c519a4b4f4661dd0831421943ef7
 
DotARd not letting AP reporters into press briefings because they are still calling it the Gulf of Mexico. 
Seriously, all reporters should just boycott all doTArd press briefings. He would starve without the attention. Its not like they say anything that's not a lie anyway. 
 
 

As if Fox or OAN or NewsMax or worse won’t cover him.
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On 2/12/2025 at 10:41 AM, Brisketexan said:

You've wanted the exact outcome we're experiencing for more than a few years.

The rest of us, on the other hand, warned and worked AGAINST this outcome.  This is NOT what we wanted, at all.  But....now that we the people have enthusiastically chosen it, so be it.  The only way out of this path is counting on the psychology of pain aversion - bolstered by actual experience of said pain - to do its work.  We picked a path where the only options are 1) continuous, long-term low to moderate level suffering, and continuing social decline, or 2) short term brutal suffering, so harsh that it prompts us to change course.  Given that circumstance....hell yes we root for the one that will lead to us changing course.

I mean, human society took a "burn it all down" approach in the 30s and 40s.  We learned a lot, and many things were improved afterwards.  Was it worth the price, and wouldn't it have been better to have avoided learning those lessons the hard way?

There were so many things that led to what happened in the 30’s and 40’s that it’s takes books being written about all of the different events. The Washington Naval Treaty of 1921 was a big middle finger to Japan. They felt they were relegated to being under the thumb of the United States and Britain in the Far East. That and many other things set them on their self-destruction tour from 1931-1945.

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12 hours ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

Emil Bove. There's a red dirt real American from the heartland you could have a beer with on the front porch and just shoot the shit with.

Weirdly enough, I know or knew a lawyer in Dallas named Emil.  Not pronounced ay-meel, but emmel, like emmett with an L. Crusty sumbitch, not exactly country, but fairly Texan.

Guy has a fairly standard DOJ/white collar resume, and, was involved in investigation and prosecution of 1/6 defendants.  https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trumps-feared-doj-enforcer-secret-investigated-jan-6-rcna191796

While it would take a special kind of asshole to represent Trump, I am a bit shocked that he would be such a complete and compromised toady.

What's going to happen here, I suspect, is that they are going to run out all the decent trial lawyers at DOJ and be left with a bunch of incompetent ideologues.

Expect the federal conviction rate to plummet over the next four years.

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14 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

What's going to happen here, I suspect, is that they are going to run out all the decent trial lawyers at DOJ and be left with a bunch of incompetent ideologues.

So basically just like the Texas AG’s office?

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Weirdly enough, I know or knew a lawyer in Dallas named Emil.  Not pronounced ay-meel, but emmel, like emmett with an L. Crusty sumbitch, not exactly country, but fairly Texan.
Guy has a fairly standard DOJ/white collar resume, and, was involved in investigation and prosecution of 1/6 defendants.  https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trumps-feared-doj-enforcer-secret-investigated-jan-6-rcna191796
While it would take a special kind of asshole to represent Trump, I am a bit shocked that he would be such a complete and compromised toady.
What's going to happen here, I suspect, is that they are going to run out all the decent trial lawyers at DOJ and be left with a bunch of incompetent ideologues.
Expect the federal conviction rate to plummet over the next four years.

This.
So basically just like the Texas AG’s office?

Exactly.
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8 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

So basically just like the Texas AG’s office?

Yeah, although I was thinking more in terms of criminal prosecutions.  I think it's easier to be an incompetent ideologue buffoon in a civil setting than criminal prosecution.

But of course USDOJ is really almost primarily a civil institution, like the Texas AG.

One thing, though.  Historically, the AGs office has been a decent landing place for those without great grades from the lower tier law schools (note that I am not saying they're shitty lawyers, just not Order of the Coif from UT).  Therefore, I suspect that the AGs office still has a lot of apolitical civil servants, despite its politics.

USDOJ has never been a landing place for anyone.  Always competitive and requiring a certain desire to do that kind of work at reduced salaries, because almost everyone at DOJ could be gainfully employed elsewhere at probably double the salary, or more.

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41 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Expect the federal conviction rate to plummet over the next four years.

Or the government will just start influencing/bribing judges and juries to give them the verdict they want, because who is gonna punish them?

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2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

There is not one.  That’s really true, it doesn’t exist beyond what the Oval burps up from day to day.  

 

Do you even art of the deal bro?
He’s uNpReDiCtAbLe!!1

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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

Weirdly enough, I know or knew a lawyer in Dallas named Emil.  Not pronounced ay-meel, but emmel, like emmett with an L. Crusty sumbitch, not exactly country, but fairly Texan.

 

I'd call him Email.

 

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16 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

 


 


This is chilling to me.

By equating disagreement with policies as violating your oath to the constitution seems like a pretty extreme escalation of rhetoric 

Chilling indeed. 

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13 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

want to make sure everyone actually watches the video

not only does he slept himself on mitch, but he throws shade at kaitlin collins

 

This is the only part he wants to take in being president. Mouthing off and signing executive orders. The presidency as sinecure. Nice work if you can get it. The King of England is more involved in government than this pustule.

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20 hours ago, mchookem said:

now this...this pisses me off.

imo the NPS is the best thing our federal govt has ever done. so of course they are going to try to destroy it. motherfuckers.

Can’t stop at fucking over the legacy of Abe Lincoln. Gotta fuck over the legacy of Teddy Roosevelt too!

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20 hours ago, TexArcher said:

It's amazing to me that they're demanding respect for a renamed body of water, but those people over there who want to be called whatever they want to be called, no, fuck them.

The god damned ocean has more rights than women and trans people.

 

Big water. Ocean water. 

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120 people were laid off from Catholic Charities in Houston yesterday due to federal funding being withheld. Houston has a very large refugee population so this will absolutely be felt in the community.

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3 minutes ago, royiv said:

120 people were laid off from Catholic Charities in Houston yesterday due to federal funding being withheld. Houston has a very large refugee population so this will absolutely be felt in the community.

That's the entire point. 

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